I doubt a Priest would even question someone who was in line to receive Communion in a Catholic Church since there are often folks who are there and not part of the congregation, however I would never go up to receive communion because I know the traditions or restrictions they believe. It just wouldn’t be right of me to do that. Yet the Buddist wanted the preferencial treatment, or just to cause a stink. Did she possibly use her own mother’s funeral as a platform for her own agenda?
The priest has contact with the family prior to the service, she may just have shoved a lot in his face and challenged HIM. Not the other way around. However, not having been there, I cannot definitively say. I CAN say that too often the American Catholic church messes these things up. I refuse to blindly support the discipline of the priest.
This woman TOLD the priest that she was a buddhist lesbian prior to the funeral Mass, and STILL presented herself for communion and caused a stink when refused, so yes, i do believe she was looking to promote her agenda. xshub says it all the time, the Church is going to be put in the position before long, of having to perform gay marriages and in this instance give communion to someone who had pronounced herself ineligible, or be declared to be unfair, unjust, discriminatory. Now if the woman just LOOKED like a dyke, gave every appearance of BEING a dyke, the priest would have been wrong to make assumptions and refuse her. but this woman supposedly flat out told the priest she was actively living in contravention of the church’s teachings.